This book will teach you that:
- movies have roots in magic shows and fairground attractions,
- movie are made up individual images played back at a specific speed to produce the illusion of movement,
- the inventor of special effects was a Frenchman,
- Foley artists use all sorts of unusual objects to create sound effects for film,
- volume rendering may make screens a thing of the past!
Activities section includes: making a thaumatrope, learning to create fantastical effects with a smartphone, directing a stop-motion film, putting together your own miniature hologram projector.